However, some of the provisions in the draft Bill needs scrutiny, as these could scare away international investors India has come out with a draft space activities Bill focused on allowing private players to build satellites, rockets and space vehicles for domestic and global needs. So far, most space activities has been government driven - developing satellites and launching these on homegrown rockets to create capacity for the country's needs. The lack of a space law was being seen ...

International Seminar on Indian Space Programme: Trends and Opportunities for Industry inaugurated in New Delhi The International Seminar on Indian Space Programme: Trends and Opportunities for Industry was inaugurated here today. The seminar is being ...

There is a huge spurt in demand to launch smaller satellites, those as light as 1 kg, with a lifespan of two to three years. But there aren’t enough rockets to carry these, reports T E Narasimhan. Larsen & Toubro, Godrej and Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd will join a consortium, being put together by Indian Space Research Organisation, to build Polar Satellite Launch Vehicles. The vehicles will launch small satellites, and the first launch is being planned by 2020. A pact is to be signed ...

The space agency has set 2020 as the deadline for the first privately built rocket to be launched into space. Godrej & Boyce confirmed on Friday it would join an industry consortium being formed by the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) to build workhorse rocket Polar Satellite Launch Vehicles (PSLVs) to send local and global satellites into space. The space agency has set 2020 as the deadline for the first privately built rocket to be launched into space. “It is at a ...